Dr Kylie Morphett
Research Fellow
School of Public Health
+61 7 334 64689
Researcher biography
Dr Kylie Morphett completed her PhD in November 2016 and has since worked as a Research Fellow at the UQ School of Public Health. Prior to beginning her PhD, she worked in a number of non-profit health-related roles, including as a Research Officer at the Cancer Council Queensland Viertel Cancer Research Centre, and as Project Officer at Active Ageing Australia, where she developed health promotion materials aimed at older adults. Her PhD research investigated how smokers understand the neuroscience of nicotine addiction and how this influences their sense of self-efficacy and choice of cessation methods. It also explored barriers to the use of best practice smoking cessation pharmacotherapies.
Dr Morphett's current research is focused on health communication related to tobacco and nicotine products, as well as emerging environmental contaminants. She has expertise in mixed methods research, including systematic reviews, qualitative data analysis and the development and analysis of cross-sectional surveys. She has a strong interest in environmental health communication, and is an investigator on a grant from the Queensland Alliance for Environmental Health (QAEHS) to investigate public risk perceptions of environmental contamination with per- and polyfluroalkyl substances (PFAS) from fire-fighting foams. She has been awarded a UQ Early Career Researcher grant for her project “Understanding risk perceptions of emerging environmental contaminants” and is part of a national collaboration of researchers and practitioners exploring ways to address the social consequences of PFAS.
Book Chapter
Morphett, Kylie and Gartner, Coral (2022). A critical analysis of the prohibition of electronic nicotine delivery systems : critical analysis and implications for public health. Handbook of substance misuse and addictions: from biology to public health. (pp. 825-849) edited by Vinood B. Patel and Victor R. Preedy. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-92392-1_43
Journal Articles
Gartner, Coral, Perusco, Andrew, Puljević, Cheneal, Morphett, Kylie and Hefler, Marita (2023). International progress toward a commercial tobacco endgame is an opportunity for advancing tobacco control in Australia. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 47 (2) 100029, 100029-2. doi: 10.1016/j.anzjph.2023.100029
Demeshko, Anastassia, Buckley, Lisa, Morphett, Kylie, Adams, Jean, Meany, Roger and Cullerton, Katherine (2022). Characterising trusted spokespeople in noncommunicable disease prevention: a systematic scoping review. Preventive Medicine Reports, 29 101934, 1-13. doi: 10.1016/j.pmedr.2022.101934
Morphett, Kylie, Hyland, Andrew, Sellars, David and Gartner, Coral (2022). The environmental impact of tobacco products: time to increase awareness and action . Addiction, 118 (3), 396-398. doi: 10.1111/add.16046
Morphett, Kylie, Fraser, Doug, Borland, Ron, Hall, Wayne, Walker, Natalie, Bullen, Chris and Gartner, Coral (2022). A pragmatic randomised comparative trial of e-cigarettes and other nicotine products for quitting or long-term substitution in smokers. Nicotine and Tobacco Research, 24 (7), 1079-1088. doi: 10.1093/ntr/ntab266
Puljevic, Cheneal, Morphett, Kylie, Hefler, Marita, Edwards, Richard, Walker, Natalie, Thomas, David, Khan, Arifuzzaman, Perusco, Andrew, Le Grande, Michael, Cullerton, Katherine, Ait Ouakrim, Driss, Carstensen, Georgia, Sellars, David, Hoek, Janet, Borland, Ron, Bonevski, Billie, Blakely, Tony, Brolan, Claire and Gartner, Coral (2022). Closing the Gaps in Tobacco Endgame Evidence: A Scoping Review. Tobacco Control, 31 (2), 365-375. doi: 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2021-056579
Morphett, Kylie and Gartner, Coral (2021). Informed choice in the context of tobacco use disorder. Nicotine and Tobacco Research, 24 (1), 1-2. doi: 10.1093/ntr/ntab215
Sharma-Kumar, Ratika, Puljević, Cheneal, Morphett, Kylie, Meurk, Carla and Gartner, Coral (2021). The acceptability and effectiveness of videos promoting smoking cessation among Australians experiencing mental illness. Health Education and Behavior, 49 (3), 109019812110347-515. doi: 10.1177/10901981211034738
Erku, Daniel A., Bauld, Linda, Dawkins, Lynne, Gartner, Coral E., Steadman, Kathryn J., Noar, Seth M., Shrestha, Shakti and Morphett, Kylie (2021). Does the content and source credibility of health and risk messages related to nicotine vaping products have an impact on harm perception and behavioural intentions? A systematic review. Addiction, 116 (12), 3290-3303. doi: 10.1111/add.15473
Morphett, Kylie, Puljević, Cheneal, Borland, Ron, Carter, Adrian, Hall, Wayne and Gartner, Coral (2021). Attitudes towards a hypothetical 'clean nicotine' product and harm reduction among smokers. International Journal of Drug Policy, 88 103020, 1-7. doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2020.103020
Berridge, Virginia, Hall, Wayne, Taylor, Suzanne, Gartner, Coral and Morphett, Kylie (2021). A first pass, using pre‐history and contemporary history, at understanding why Australia and England have such different policies towards electronic nicotine delivery systems, 1970s–
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Morphett, Kylie, Hall, Wayne and Gartner, Coral (2021). The misuse of the precautionary principle in justifying Australia's ban on the sale of nicotine vaping products. Nicotine and Tobacco Research, 23 (1), 14-20. doi: 10.1093/ntr/ntaa173
King, Bill, Borland, Ron, Morphett, Kylie, Gartner, Coral, Fielding, Kelly, O’Connor, Richard J., Romijnders, Kim and Talhout, Reinskje (2021). ‘It’s all the other stuff!’ How smokers understand (and misunderstand) chemicals in cigarettes and cigarette smoke. Public Understanding of Science, 30 (6), 777-796. doi: 10.1177/0963662521991351
Morphett, Kylie (2020). Commentary on Notley et al. : Understanding transitions in the use of nicotine and tobacco products: the value of qualitative longitudinal research. Addiction, 116 (3), 606-607. doi: 10.1111/add.15307
Erku, Daniel A., Zhang, Rebecca, Gartner, Coral E., Morphett, Kylie and Steadman, Kathryn J. (2020). How are nicotine vaping products represented to pharmacists? A content analysis of Australian pharmacy news sources. International Journal of Pharmacy Practice, 28 (4) ijpp.12623, 390-394. doi: 10.1111/ijpp.12623
Erku, Daniel A., Kisely, Steve, Morphett, Kylie, Steadman, Kathryn J. and Gartner, Coral E. (2020). Framing and scientific uncertainty in nicotine vaping product regulation: An examination of competing narratives among health and medical organisations in the UK, Australia and New Zealand. International Journal of Drug Policy, 78 102699, 102699. doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2020.102699
Erku, Daniel, Gartner, Coral E., Morphett, Kylie, Snoswell, Centaine L. and Steadman, Kathryn J. (2020). Nicotine vaping products as a harm reduction tool among smokers: review of evidence and implication for pharmacy practice. Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy, 16 (9), 1272-1278. doi: 10.1016/j.sapharm.2020.02.002
Morphett, Kylie and Connor, Jason P (2020). Varenicline for smoking cessation in young people: is there more we need to know?. The Lancet Child and Adolescent Health, 4 (11), 797-799. doi: 10.1016/S2352-4642(20)30305-9
Erku, Daniel A., Morphett, Kylie, Steadman, Kathryn J. and Gartner, Coral E. (2019). Policy debates regarding nicotine vaping products in Australia: a qualitative analysis of submissions to a government inquiry from health and medical organisations. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 16 (22) 4555, 4555. doi: 10.3390/ijerph16224555
Erku, Daniel A., Gartner, Coral E., Tengphakwaen, Unchanok, Morphett, Kylie and Steadman, Kathryn J. (2019). Nicotine vaping product use, harm perception and policy support among pharmacy customers in Brisbane, Australia. Drug and Alcohol Review, 38 (6) dar.12984, 703-711. doi: 10.1111/dar.12984
Saw, Kyle Eu Soon, Morphett, Kylie, Puljević, Cheneal, Bromberg, Marilyn and Gartner, Coral (2019). The medium is not the message: a content analysis of public information about vaping product regulations in Australia. Drug and Alcohol Review, 38 (5), 569-578. doi: 10.1111/dar.12961
Erku, Daniel A., Gartner, Coral E., Morphett, Kylie and Steadman, Kathryn J. (2019). Beliefs and self-reported practices of healthcare professionals regarding electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS): a mixed-methods systematic review and synthesis. Nicotine and Tobacco Research, 22 (5), 619-629. doi: 10.1093/ntr/ntz046
Erku, Daniel A., Gartner, Coral E., Do, Jennifer Thi, Morphett, Kylie and Steadman, Kathryn J. (2019). Electronic nicotine delivery systems (e-cigarettes) as a smoking cessation aid: a survey among pharmacy staff in Queensland, Australia. Addictive Behaviors, 91, 227-233. doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2018.09.013
Hall, Wayne, Morphett, Kylie and Gartner, Coral (2019). A critical analysis of Australia’s ban on the sale of electronic nicotine delivery systems. Neuroethics, 14 (S3), 323-331. doi: 10.1007/s12152-019-09402-x
Morphett, Kylie, Weier, Megan, Borland, Ron, Yong, Hua-Hie and Gartner, Coral (2019). Barriers and facilitators to switching from smoking to vaping: advice from vapers. Drug and Alcohol Review, 38 (3), 234-243. doi: 10.1111/dar.12907
Morphett, Kylie, Herron, Lisa and Gartner, Coral (2019). Protectors or puritans? Responses to media articles about the health effects of e-cigarettes. Addiction Research and Theory, 28 (2), 95-102. doi: 10.1080/16066359.2019.1596259
Chan, Gary, Morphett, Kylie, Gartner, Coral, Leung, Janni, Yong, Hua-Hie, Hall, Wayne and Borland, Ron (2019). Predicting vaping uptake, vaping frequency and ongoing vaping among daily smokers using longitudinal data from the International Tobacco Control (ITC) Four Country Surveys. Addiction, 114 Suppl 1 (S1) add.14537, 61-70. doi: 10.1111/add.14537
Chapman, Audrey R., Carter, Adrian, Kaplan, Jonathan M., Morphett, Kylie and Hall, Wayne (2018). Ethical guidelines for genetic research on alcohol addiction and its applications. Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, 28 (1), 1-22. doi: 10.1353/ken.2018.0000
Pfeffer, Daniel, Wigginton, Britta, Gartner, Coral and Morphett, Kylie (2017). Smokers' understandings of addiction to nicotine and tobacco: a systematic review and interpretive synthesis of quantitative and qualitative research. Nicotine & Tobacco Research, 20 (9), 1038-1046. doi: 10.1093/ntr/ntx186
Morphett, Kylie, Carter, Adrian, Hall, Wayne, Lucke, Jayne, Partridge, Brad and Gartner, Coral (2017). Do neurobiological understandings of smoking influence quitting self-efficacy or treatment intentions?. Nicotine and Tobacco Research, 20 (7), 827-835. doi: 10.1093/ntr/ntx144
Morphett, Kylie, Carter, Adrian, Hall, Wayne and Gartner, Coral (2017). Framing tobacco dependence as a “brain disease”: implications for policy and practice. Nicotine and Tobacco Research, 19 (7), 774-780. doi: 10.1093/ntr/ntx006
Wigginton, Britta, Morphett, Kylie and Gartner, Coral Elizabeth (2017). Differential access to health care and support? A qualitative analysis of how Australian smokers conceptualise and respond to stigma. Critical Public Health, 27 (5), 577-590. doi: 10.1080/09581596.2016.1266298
Wigginton, Britta, Morphett, Kylie and Gartner, Coral Elizabeth (2016). Is it the nicotine? Australian smokers’ accounts of nicotine addiction and the implications for smoking cessation. Addiction Research and Theory, 25 (4), 293-301. doi: 10.1080/16066359.2016.1269892
Morphett, Kylie, Carter, Adrian, Hall, Wayne and Gartner, Coral (2016). Medicalization, smoking and e-cigarettes: evidence and implications. Tobacco Control, 26 (e2), e134-e139. doi: 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2016-053348
Meurk, Carla, Morphett, Kylie, Carter, Adrian, Weier, Megan, Lucke, Jayne and Hall, Wayne (2016). Scepticism and hope in a complex predicament: people with addictions deliberate about neuroscience. International Journal of Drug Policy, 32, 34-43. doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2016.03.004
Morphett, Kylie, Carter, Adrian, Hall, Wayne and Gartner, Coral (2016). A qualitative study of smokers’ views on brain-based explanations of tobacco dependence. International Journal of Drug Policy, 29, 41-48. doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2015.12.011
Morphett, Kylie, Partridge, Brad, Gartner, Coral, Carter, Adrian and Hall, Wayne (2015). Why don’t smokers want help to quit? A qualitative study of smokers’ attitudes towards assisted versus unassisted quitting. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 12 (6), 6591-6607. doi: 10.3390/ijerph120606591
Meurk, Carla, Partridge, Brad, Carter, Adrian, Hall, Wayne, Morphett, Kylie and Lucke, Jayne (2014). Public attitudes in Australia towards the claim that addiction is a (brain) disease. Drug and Alcohol Review, 33 (3), 272-279. doi: 10.1111/dar.12115
Meurk, Carla, Hall, Wayne, Morphett, Kylie, Carter, Adrian and Lucke, Jayne (2013). What does 'acceptance' mean? Public reflections on the idea that addiction is a brain disease. BioSocieties, 8 (4), 491-506. doi: 10.1057/biosoc.2013.24
Morphett, Kylie, Lucke, Jayne, Gartner, Coral, Carter, Adrian, Meurk, Carla and Hall, Wayne (2013). Public attitudes toward the treatment of nicotine addiction. Nicotine and Tobacco Research, 15 (9), 1617-1622. doi: 10.1093/ntr/ntt037
Morphett, Kylie and Meurk, Carla (2013). The "Brain Disease" Concept in Addiction: A Cause for Ambivalence, Not Concern. AJOB Neuroscience, 4 (3), 48-50. doi: 10.1080/21507740.2013.806377
Mathias, Jane L. and Morphett, Kylie (2010). Neurobehavioral differences between Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia: a meta-analysis. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 32 (7), 682-698. doi: 10.1080/13803390903427414
Conference Papers
Morphett, Kylie, Puljevic, Cheneal, Boyd, Mark, Bonevski, Billie, Gilks, Charles, Borland, Ron, Courtney, Ryan, Mcrobbie, Hayden, Baker, Peter, Winston, Alan, Baker, Amanda L., Matthews, Gail, Chatfield, Mark, Farrell, Michael, Mattick, Richard P., Ferguson, Stuart, Blakely, Tony, Hall, Wayne D. and Gartner, Coral (2021). A pragmatic randomised partial crossover clinical trial of nicotine vaporisers added to standard care for smoking cessation and relapse prevention among priority populations with comorbidities. APSAD 2021 Conference, Online, 7-10 November 2021. Chichester, West Sussex United Kingdom: Wiley-Blackwell.
Chan, Gary C. K., Sun, Tianze, Lim, Carmen C. W., Morphett, Kylie, Stjepanovic, Daniel, Chung, Jack Y. C., Chiu, Vivian, Connor, Jason P., Gartner, Coral, Hall, Wayne D. and Leung, Janni (2021). Symposium: epidemiology and potential public health benefits and harms of vaping - implication to tobacco control policies. APSAD 2021 Conference, Virtual, 7-10 November 2021. Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing.
Zhaoxi Zheng, Rebecca Olson and Kylie Morphett (2019). Medicinal Cannabis Use among Queensland-based Terminal Cancer Patients: A Qualitative Investigation into Identity and Self-presentation. The Australian Sociological Association, Sydney, Australia, 25-28 November 2019.
Gartner, Coral, Borland, Ron, Cummings, Michael, Morphett, Kylie, Le Grande, Michael and Fong, Geoffrey (2019). How do convenience samples from vaper networks compare to a population based sample of vapers?. Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco, San Francisco, CA, United States, 20-23 February 2019.
Saw, Kyle Eu Soon, Morphett, Kylie, Puljevic, Cheneal, Bromberg, Marilyn and Gartner, Coral (2019). The Medium is not the Message: A Content Analysis of Public Information about Electronic Vapour Product Regulations in Australia (Poster). Society for Research in Nicotine and Tobacco Oceania Conference, Sydney, NSW Australia, 22-24 October 2019.
Erku, Daniel A., Gartner, Coral E., Do, Jennifer Thi, Morphett, Kylie and Steadman, Kathryn J. (2019). Electronic nicotine delivery systems (e-cigarettes) as a smoking cessation aid: a survey among pharmacy staff in Queensland, Australia. In: 2018 Southern Pharmacy Administration Conference, Auburn, Alabama, United States, (E12-E12). 7-9 June 2018. doi:10.1016/j.sapharm.2019.03.099
Morphett, Kylie, Carter, Adrian, Hall, Wayne Denis (UQCCR) and Gartner, Coral Elizabeth (2017). Do smokers want to quit without help? Attitudes towards assisted and unassisted quitting in Australia. 15th World Congress on Public Health, Melbourne Convention Centre, Melbourne, Australia, 3-7 April 2017.
Gartner, Coral Elizabeth, Morphett, Kylie, Hall, Wayne Denis (UQCCR) and Carter, Adrian (2017). Attitudes towards clean nicotine and tobacco harm reduction in Australian adult smokers. Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco Annual Meeting, Florence, Italy, 8-11 March 2017.
Morphett, Kylie, Hall, Wayne Denis (UQCCR), Carter, Adrian and Gartner, Coral Elizabeth (2017). Attitudes towards clean nicotine and tobacco harm reduction in Australian adult smokers. 15th World Congress on Public Health, Melbourne Convention Centre, Melbourne Australia, 3-7 April 2017.
Morphett, K., Carter, A., Hall, W. and Gartner, C. (2015). Smokers' endorsement of biological explanations of addiction and their relationship to treatment choices. Oceania Tobacco Control Conference, Peth, WA Australia, 20-22 October 2015.
Meurk, Carla, Morphett, Kylie, Fraser, Doug, Carter, Adrian, Lucke, Jayne and Hall, Wayne D. (2014). Is knowing about neurobiology helpful to those affected by addiction? Perspectives of drug dependent persons and their families. Australasian Professional Society on Alcohol and other Drugs Conference 2014, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, 9-12 November, 2014. Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing. doi: 10.1111/dar.12222
Meurk, Carla, Keane, Helen, Fraser, Suzanne, Madden, Annie, Morphett, Kylie, Fraser, Doug, Carter, Adrian, Lucke, Jayne and Hall, Wayne D. (2014). Neuroscientific Accounts of Addiction: Social and Ethical Dimensions. Australasian Professional Society on Alcohol and other Drugs Conference 2014, Adelaide, SA Australia, 9-12 November 2014. Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing. doi: 10.1111/dar.12222
Morphett, Kylie A., Lucke, Jayne C., Gartner, Coral E., Carter, Adrian, Meurk, Carla S. and Hall, Wayne D. (2013). Public attitudes towards the treatment of nicotine addiction. 2013 SRNT 19th Annual International Meeting, Boston, MA United States, 13-16 March 2013.
Carter, Adrian, Meurk, Carla, Morphett, Kylie and Keane, Helen (2013). The Brain Disease Model of Addiction: Attitudes and Implications. Australasian Professional Society on Alcohol and other Drugs (APSAD) conference, Brisbane, QLD Australia, 24 - 27 November 1013. Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.. doi: 10.1111/dar.12077
Meurk, Carla, Carter, Adrian, Lucke, Jayne, Partridge, Brad, Morphett, Kylie and Hall, Wayne (2013). How has neurobiology affected public perceptions of addiction? Review of a mixed methods study. Australasian Professional Society on Alcohol and other Drugs Conference 2013, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 24-27 November 2013. Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom: Wiley-Blackwell. doi: 10.1111/dar.12077
Morphett, Kylie, Gartner, Coral, Carter, Adrian, Lucke, Jayne, Partridge, Brad and Hall, Wayne (2013). Is smoking a brain disease? The attitudes of smokers towards a neurobiological conceptualisation of nicotine dependence. Australasian Professional Society on Alcohol and other Drugs Conference 2013, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 24-27 November 2013. Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom: Wiley-Blackwell. doi: 10.1111/dar.12077
Thesis
Morphett, Kylie (2016). The biomedicalisation of smoking cessation: a mixed methods study of lay perspectives on nicotine addiction. PhD Thesis, School of Medicine, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/uql.2016.1087